Community-based Intergenerational Oral Health Study (Baby Smiles)

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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01120041

Recruitment Status
: Unknown

Verified January 2011 by University of Washington. Recruitment status was: Recruiting

The purpose of this study is to determine whether giving brief motivational interviewing counseling during the prenatal and/or postnatal period(s) will increase utilization of preventive dental care and improve the oral health of rural, low-income pregnant and postpartum women and their children, and to increase the number of home oral health practices taken by these women to prevent caries in their young children.

Visiting the dentist during pregnancy and up to two months postpartum for the mother and visiting the dentist before 18 months for the child. [ Time Frame: During pregnancy and up to two months post partum (mother); up to 18 months (child) ]

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